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Ellie Ismailidou is an award-winning lawyer-turned-journalist, writer, anchor and producer specializing in business and finance. In her current role as Supervising Producer & Anchor, Ellie oversees Barron's and MarketWatch video airing on the Wall Street Journal Digital Network. She is also the anchor of Explainomics, a scripted original video series explaining complex finance and investing concepts through graphics and animation. In 2018, Explainomics won a Telly award in the online non-scripted video series category. Ellie also won Columbia Journalism School's Philip Greer Memorial award for outstanding financial writing. Ellie is a member of Fordham University's Adjunct Faculty, teaching Multimedia Journalism - news photography, audio, video - for students in the Journalism Major. Fluent in three languages - English, Spanish, Greek - Ellie's work has been featured on some of the most prestigious international TV, print and online media:

Currently, Ellie is the development and production leader for the following flagship original series that air on the WSJ Digital Network:

1. Explainomics, a scripted series of graphics-driven explainer videos that break down complex finance and investing concepts through animation and visuals optimized for social media.

2. SectorWatch, a 100-episode-per-year documentary-style video series featuring celebrity investors, thought leaders and tech trends shaping the future of different sectors. In Oct. 2018, SectorWatch was renewed for its third season.

3. Getting to Work With, a series that follows influential business leaders on their commute to work, while getting insight into their unique leadership styles.

4. The Moneyist, a scripted quirky advice-column-themed series on life's biggest money questions.

5. On The Clock, a web series that features influential leaders in a race against time, breaking down complex terms in tech, business and finance.

Previously, Ellie was a markets reporter at MarketWatch, co-authoring MarketWatch's popular Market Snapshot and Bond Report columns, which together were read by as many as 100,000 people every day. Ellie's articles helped tens of thousands of investors make sense of the stock market's daily ups and downs to decipher trends and themes determining the future of their investments.

Earlier, Ellie covered public finance and city bankruptcies for Debtwire, which was then a part of the Financial Times Group and is currently an Acuris company. Ellie specialized in Puerto Rico’s financial crisis and appeared as a television and radio guest as an expert reporter on distressed city finances.

Ellie started her career covering the notorious Greek crisis on the ground for Greek newspaper To Vima (i.e. The Tribune), one of the oldest and most influential Greek newspapers.

Ellie holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she won the prestigious Philip Greer Memorial Award for Financial Writing.

Before going into journalism, Ellie was a member attorney of the Athens Bar Association, in Athens, Greece, and worked for A. Harokopou and Associates Law Offices, delving into the mysteries of constitutional and public law – in a country infamous for its bureaucratic paranoia.